DRYING RESEARCH HEATS UP Efforts promise to improve the efficiency of industrial operations

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MAJOR RESEARCH initiatives underway in the United States and European Union(EU)are striving to better understand industrial drying and to address the technical and economic issues posed by such operations.Speaking in July 2016 at the opening of the Center for Advanced Research in Drying(CARD),based at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI),Worcester,Mass.,its director,WPI professor Jamal Yagoobi,pointed out that industrial drying processes waste about 2% of the 100 quadrillion BTUs(or quads)of energy used each year in the United States.”If CARD achieves its aim of improving the energy efficiency of those processes by 10%,it could save 0.2 quads of energy each year.Also,since steam is the prime media used in industrial heating and drying,by making drying more efficient,the Center also aims to help reduce annual water usage in the U.S.by about 10 billion kilograms,”he added.